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- adjective of or pertaining to
palaeography
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Examples
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Professional medievalists need palaeographical and linguistic skills, and few have them when they graduate with BA degrees in history or English.
Doing a Master's program in medieval studies in Great Britain 2008
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Above all, the abounding corruptions and other difficulties demanded all his palaeographical knowledge, his knowledge of ancient literature, his Latinity, his imagination and penetration to solve them.
Housman at Work & Play Plowden, G.F.C. 1984
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Now, Mr. Hardy, "as 10_l_. in those days would have equalled about 60_l_. of our present money," on your honor and your palaeographical reputation, does it betray "no little ignorance" to mistake, or, if you please, to misprint, 10's. for ten 10'li.?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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But results of much importance were gained -- first, of a palaeographical, and, secondly, of a linguistic character.
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_C_ also contains a greater number of purely palaeographical errors than any other manuscript: _hunc_ for _nunc_ (i 25), _humeris_ for _numeris_
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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The chapters on abbreviations of medieval manuscripts in the palaeographical manuals of DE WAILLY
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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"Notitiae Episcopatuum" as suffragan to Sebasteia, and its name is written sometimes Berisse, sometimes Berisse; Merisse and Kerisse are merely palaeographical mistakes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Thus, apparently, considerations of form and style (purely palaeographical considerations) confirm the dates derived from examination of the internal evidence, and the Berlin and Fulda manuscripts may, in effect, be considered two dated manuscripts, two definite guide-posts.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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Inasmuch as these palaeographical differences mark a tendency which reaches fuller development in later uncial manuscripts, it is clear that their presence in our manuscript is a sign of its more recent character as compared with manuscripts of the oldest type.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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Philological Associations, held at Princeton University, two papers were read, one concerning the palaeographical, the other the textual, importance of the fragment.
A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York Edward Kennard Rand 1908
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